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Gamezone · Nov 24, 2017

From Polygon:

The economy of Star Wars Battlefront 2 is based entirely around credits now that premium transactions have been removed from the game, and earning enough credits to buy the loot boxes to get the cards you need or to unlock the heroes you want can take a lot of time. So clever players have found physical ways to cheat the system.

While one player created a simple robot to keep their character moving in order to farm credits without being removed from the game due to inactivity, the same thing can be done by simply adding a few rubber bands to your controller.

You may be hurting your teams chances at winning and annoying the rest of the players on the server, but this is the world EA and DICE have created. It feels weird to get angry at players who are trying to stretch whats acceptable inside an economy that was this ill-conceived.

Just in case you want to ruin the game for others while earning enough credits to get whatever you want, this is how its done.

Source: https://www.polygon.com/2017/11/24/16696870/star-wars-battlefront-2-economy-cheats

Spukc · Nov 24, 2017

i would do the same thing afk grinding woop woop

Steroyd · Nov 24, 2017

This would have happened regardless of if the pay to win option was still available because EA Dice decided to reward all players the same amount of credits in a match whether you get 50 kills in a match or zero.

So many ill conceived decisions surrounding the game despite the consensus being that the game is a step up gameplay and content wise.

Redmond Barry · Nov 24, 2017

What an absolute clusterfuck this game turned out to be. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Nikki Noxis · Nov 24, 2017

This was happening in For Honor not long ago, it still is to a lesser extent these days. It's just naturally what happens when you prioritize your game around loot crate rubbish.

DonF · Nov 24, 2017

Pay $60+ for this? To avoid the sense of pride and accomplishment? Gamers are weird.

I'm never buying this game

kingbean · Nov 24, 2017

I too find watching tv and checking the Internet more entertaining than playing battlefront 2.

I just took the easiest route and never bought it.

CSJ · Nov 24, 2017

I honestly thought this was going to be a thread about network related rubber-banding and it being blamed on players and not the recent discovery of people being connected to servers on the other side of the planet. (almost).

Peroroncino · Nov 24, 2017

hahaha, that's what you get for designing a grindfest of a game with lootbox based progression, what a mess.

Thunder_God_Bane · Nov 24, 2017

Looool laughing harder at the muppets that actually bought this game :0D

Blam · Nov 24, 2017

Should have seen what people did for Destiny.

zenspider · Nov 24, 2017

This is a shame because the game itself is a blast.

I'm starting to hit the point (level 20-ish) where, if microtransactions were there, I'd be tempted, because I'm seeing all these great opportunities for builds and ideas for classes, but the organic progression is SO needlessly so.

Splatoon 2 big free updates are rolling out, and if I drop SWBII I don't see myself getting back in because of this.

HeisenbergFX4 · Nov 24, 2017

Blam said:
Should have seen what people did for Destiny.

Hey that Loot Cave let me grind my Hunter from level 5 to 20 in one evening of watching Monday Night Football

BLAUcopter · Nov 24, 2017

So glad I traded this steaming pile of shit in.

JareBear: Remastered · Nov 24, 2017

Spukc said:
i would do the same thing afk grinding woop woop

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Gamezone · Nov 24, 2017

BLAUcopter said:
So glad I traded this steaming pile of shit in.

I tried to sell it for half price after two days, yet I haven`t managed to sell it.

Tarin02543 · Nov 24, 2017

This is not what I 20 years ago imagined videogames to be.

Alx · Nov 24, 2017

It shouldn't be too hard to detect constant inputs and consider them to be inactive players.

Big Blue · Nov 24, 2017

This isn't really new. I definitely remember people doing this for GTA Online, since running is the only way to improve your stamina.

EverydayBeast · Nov 24, 2017

Tarin02543 said:
This is not what I 20 years ago imagined videogames to be.

Runescape was around 20 years ago and practiced similar tactics.

michaelius · Nov 24, 2017

This trainwreck gets better and better

Layell · Nov 24, 2017

The natural evolution of achievement_idle servers in TF2.

Human 2.0 · Nov 24, 2017

I really hate what companies like EA, and the gamers that bought into the pay to win mechanic, have done to my beloved pass time.

Lupin3 · Nov 24, 2017

Nothing new here, move along! This has been practiced for years. #polygon

Crazyorloco · Nov 24, 2017

Holy crap this is crazy lol

What a world we are living in. I havent purchased the game, and I dont know If i would seeing all this. Its a mess.

Any game that wants me to pay to not play isnt a good game.

Mooreberg · Nov 24, 2017

Didn't someone do Nurburgring in Gran Turismo 4 using rubber bands? I honestly wonder if FPP bot farmers in PUBG do this. So many matches where there are 35 people left before the first circle is closed. :-\

But yeah, this is a byproduct of dysfunctional game design for it to actual be working in a multiplayer game.

Revolutionary · Nov 25, 2017

Only Polygon can manage to make Black Friday look like a slow news day by reposting something upvoted by 300 people on Reddit.

Ubername · Nov 25, 2017

Gamezone said:
From Polygon:
Just in case you want to ruin the game for others while earning enough credits to get whatever you want, this is how its done.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but how does this crap not get deleted from the article? That's a pretty tasteless jab at people who are using their ingenuity (read: getting into the game) to get ahead in the mp. What an asshole you must have to be to write something like that.

Crazyorloco · Nov 25, 2017

Ubername said:
I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but how does this crap not get deleted from the article? That's a pretty tasteless jab at people who are using their ingenuity (read: getting into the game) to get ahead in the mp. What an asshole you must have to be to write something like that.

But think about those that actually play the game normally. It ruins the experience for those.

This is a game that rewards people by not playing it. And people are doing just that by buying shit to get ahead and using rubber bands lol Im going to reward myself by not buying it. I hope things change for EA and the star wars games.

Ubername · Nov 25, 2017

Crazyorloco said:
But think about those that actually play the game normally. It ruins the experience for those.

This is a game that rewards people by not playing it. And people are doing just that by buying shit to get ahead and using rubber bands lol Im going to reward myself by not buying it. I hope things change for EA and the star wars games.

Yeah I know. But that doesn't mean a gaming publication should shit on them in an article, I mean come on. It's just silly to read that type of thing bc it reads exactly like a forum post. I don't disagree that they're ruining the game for you.

But again the onus is on the devs for making a game that puts its dedicated playerbase in the position to do idiotic stuff like rubberband controllers to idly rank up

EverydayBeast · Nov 25, 2017

*Force Chokes EA*

-hadouken · Nov 25, 2017

I remember a time before fooking progression systems. People no longer know how to play for fun. :/

Trogdor1123 · Nov 25, 2017

This game is going to really bomb... Well at least be way off expectations.

Petrae · Nov 25, 2017

Battlefront II truly is the holiday gift that keeps on giving.

scitek · Nov 25, 2017

I remember reading about people doing something like this to cheat the 24-hour Le Mans races in Gran Turismo. They would pick a race that was like a Nascar track, and just lay something down on the X button and go to bed. The car would drive into the wall, but still complete the race because it was just an oval. Wake up, and you have a shit ton of credits from completing the event.

Martinski43 · Nov 25, 2017

It's almost like botting in mmo's. Awesome..

SMOK3Y · Nov 25, 2017

This isnt a question about BF2 but the rubber band & controller sorta counts lol but in D2 when i hit L3 to run itll run 3 steps then walk all the fookin time but work's perfectly in every other game? So don't know if it's game or controller?

Soul of the Beast · Nov 25, 2017

amazing

LOLCats · Nov 25, 2017

Maybe someone will take EA out back and shoot them.

Noboru Wataya · Nov 25, 2017

EA/Dice "ruined" the game that people have had to try this to accelerate progress.

Remember Turok had an achievement for team killing.

WaterAstro · Nov 25, 2017

A rubberbot lol.

This happens in a lot of games, though not with a rubber band.

In LoL, people have pretty complex afk bots. Hard to spot them sometimes.

Hoya Destroyer · Nov 25, 2017

I used the same short cut years ago, to get my stealth stat up in Oblivion. I spent about two hours crouch-walking into a wall.
I can understand this'd be more annoying in a PvP environment.

TeeDoff · Nov 25, 2017

I've seen a few AFK players, but no rubber banding...yet.

I've completed most challenges for credits now, outside of space combat and arcade mode, so the only way to get credits is the daily login crate (75-125) and the 150-350 for playing games... I can see the temptation.

Air Zombie Meat · Nov 25, 2017

We have a product for those who want an accelerated experience. It's called a rubber band.

samurai1226 · Nov 25, 2017

That's nothing new, I saw of lot of people doing that in Halo 5 Warzone when the game launched...

Starbuck2907 · Nov 25, 2017

If you have EA Access, play the 10 free hours. Game is fun.

Shame about loot boxes, but the core game is fun so far.

Sony · Nov 25, 2017

samurai1226 said:
That's nothing new, I saw of lot of people doing that in Halo 5 Warzone when the game launched...

I think that was lag as you don't get much req points for just completing a warzone match

cormack12 · Nov 25, 2017

Jesus Christ - $60 to buy a new game that you tie up Your console with and tie rubber bands round a controller. What's wrong with people? For a characetr that will probably last a year.

The_Mike · Nov 25, 2017

Starbuck2907 said:
If you have EA Access, play the 10 free hours. Game is fun.

Shame about loot boxes, but the core game is fun so far.

Agreed, whats wrong with just playing the game? If you find it boring to unlock Darth Vader it probably isnt for you anyway.

I do get that progression locked to loot boxes are shit, I really do, but so we really need to unlock everything? We can just craft what we want with crafting parts.

DjRalford · Nov 25, 2017

People use to do this in destiny 1 too, to stay in online games for chances of a good drop.

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